On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 12:14:24PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 12:07:33PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Ohhhh, does that happens outside of XFS then? No wonder I couldn't find > > what you were talking about. Ok I'll go look some more. > > Yes. get_name() in fs/exportfs/expfs.c. Hmm. Implementing a custom ->get_name for pptrs would work well for child files with low hardlink counts. Certainly there are probably a lot more large directories than files that are hardlinked many many times. At what point does it become cheaper to scan the directory? --D
